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<center><b><font size="6">VisIt 1.8.1 Release Notes</font></b></center>

<p>Welcome to VisIt's release notes page. Release 1.8.1 is primarily a bug fix release to release 1.8.  Look <a href="relnotes1.8.html">here</a> to see a complete list of bugs fixed in release 1.8.</p>
<p><b><font size="4">Bugs fixed in version 1.8.1</font></b></p>
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<li>Fixed 'Change username' option in VisIt's password window to work on Windows.
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<li>Fixed viewer crash on Windows when accessing data remotely, and plotting from two different databases in the same window.
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<li>Fixed qtssh argument parsing problem encountered when MDServer shares batch job with engine.
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<li>Fixed a problem with the creation of automatic vector magnitude expressions for databases with complex variable names.
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<li>Fixed an issue with Silo Multi Mesh Adjacency object support when the Treat All DBs as Time Varying preference is enabled. 
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<li>Fixed a crash on x86_64 machines when using the Python function SILRestriction().SetsInCategory().
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<li>Modified the parallel pbatch host profile for rhea to use Moab instead of LCRM.
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<li>Fixed crash for Ale3D files that have no ghost information and mixed variables in only some domains.
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<li>Fixed the version of VisIt built for the alc and pengra machines so that it can read HDF5 based Silo files.
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<li>Fixed the KullLite reader to correctly create Pyramid zones.
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<p>Click the following link to view the release notes for the previous version
of VisIt: <a href="relnotes1.8.0.html">VisIt 1.8.0 Release Notes</a>.</p>
<p>Click the following link to view the release notes for the next version
of VisIt: <a href="relnotes1.9.0.html">VisIt 1.9.0 Release Notes</a>.</p>
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